The American Reader: A Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Wholly from American Authors : Embracing a Great Variety of Entertaining Subjects of History, Biography, Divinity, Laws, Natural and Moral Philosophy, and of Other Branches of Useful and Elegant Learning : Furnishing Numerous Specimens of American Eloquence, from the Presidential Chair, the Head Quarters of the Military Commander, the Seat in Congress, the Pulpit on Various Occasions, the Bench of the Judge, the Bar, Station of Literary Honor, the Seat of the Muses, and from the Shade of Private Life : Containing Rules for the Proper Use of the Pauses, for Graceful and Persuasive Pronunciation, and for Appropriate and Impressive Gesture, to Improve the Scholar in Reading and Speaking, While Enriching the Mind with Religious, Virtuous, and Useful Knowledge : with an Appendix of Definitions of the Words in this Book Most Difficult for Youth to Understand : Designed for the Use of SchoolsLincoln & Edmands, 1810 - 216 sidor |
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... souls of cox- combs are therefore incapable of any thing excellent or glorious . To shine with their butterfly robes ... soul ? Is it nothing to sacrifice moral powers and feelings , to blast the hope and promise of our nature ? If any ...
... souls of cox- combs are therefore incapable of any thing excellent or glorious . To shine with their butterfly robes ... soul ? Is it nothing to sacrifice moral powers and feelings , to blast the hope and promise of our nature ? If any ...
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... soul . Simplicity of dress be- speaks simplicity of character . Chaste ornament marks the delicacy and purity of the mind . 12. We naturally look to the female sex as the guar- dians of purity . We look to women to chasten our minds ...
... soul . Simplicity of dress be- speaks simplicity of character . Chaste ornament marks the delicacy and purity of the mind . 12. We naturally look to the female sex as the guar- dians of purity . We look to women to chasten our minds ...
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... soul to cease , And bow submissive to a sovereign will . 13. Faith led him gently downward to the tomb , While fix'd on heav'n his meek , yet steady eye , Pierc'd the thick shade , that deepen'd round its gloom , And caught a gleam of ...
... soul to cease , And bow submissive to a sovereign will . 13. Faith led him gently downward to the tomb , While fix'd on heav'n his meek , yet steady eye , Pierc'd the thick shade , that deepen'd round its gloom , And caught a gleam of ...
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... soul a host of vices and crimes . 7. A more affecting spectacle cannot be exhibited , than a person into whom this infernal spirit , generated by habits of intemperance , has entered . It is more or less affecting , according to the ...
... soul a host of vices and crimes . 7. A more affecting spectacle cannot be exhibited , than a person into whom this infernal spirit , generated by habits of intemperance , has entered . It is more or less affecting , according to the ...
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... souls . 16. In order more successfully to effect this purpose , permit me to suggest to you to employ the same wise modes of instruction , which you use in your attempts to prevent their destruction by other vices . You ex- pose the ...
... souls . 16. In order more successfully to effect this purpose , permit me to suggest to you to employ the same wise modes of instruction , which you use in your attempts to prevent their destruction by other vices . You ex- pose the ...
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Sida 95 - I expected every moment," says an eye-witness, " to see him fall. His duty and situation exposed him to every danger. Nothing but the superintending care of Providence could have saved him from the fate of all around him.